Tammara
Feminine · “date palm”
Tammara doubles a consonant that Hebrew does not double, and the doubling changes where the stress sits. Tamara can be said with the weight on either of its first two syllables; write the m twice and English pulls it forward, which makes this a respelling that alters the name rather than its appearance.
How old is the name Tammara?
Tammara first appears in US birth records in 1946 — 79 years ago. The typical Tammara alive today was born around 1971, making them about 54 years old. About 2,300 people named Tammara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tammara most popular?
Tammara peaked in 1968, reaching #1042 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tamar to Tammara
The story of Tammara
Doubling a consonant in English is a signal about the vowel in front of it, and it is also, in practice, a signal about stress: the syllable before a doubled letter tends to take the weight. That is why butter and beetle sit differently in the mouth. Applied to a three-syllable name with an unsettled stress pattern, the device does real work. Tamara in American speech wobbles between TAM-uh-ruh and tuh-MAR-uh; Tammara points firmly at the first. Most respellings change nothing audible, and it is worth noticing the ones that do.
Meaning
date palm
The Hebrew tamar names the tree. The doubled consonant is an English spelling device and has no counterpart in the original.
How the name formed
- Tamar
- Tamara
- Tammara
Related forms: Tamara · Tamar
Pronouncing Tammara
TAM-uh-ruh
Three syllables with the weight at the front. The single-m spelling permits a second reading with the weight in the middle; this one does not.
Nicknames for Tammara
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1946
- Most girls named
- 1963106 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1042reached in 1968
- Change vs 2003
- −50.0%6 in 2006, from 12
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tammara in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tamara in Russian — spelling variant
- Tamar in Georgian — related form
Tammaras among us
people named Tammara are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Tammara sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The doubling settles a stress pattern that the standard spelling leaves open.
- It carries two short forms with quite different characters.
- The tree behind it is real and the meaning is easy to explain.
- Tamara is far commoner and will be written instead.
- The two spellings genuinely point at different stresses, so they are not simply variants.
- It reads clearly as a name of the middle of the twentieth century.
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- How many Tammaras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Tammara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tammara in 2025?
- Tammara is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Tammara will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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